How to pronounce Zhur

Zhur is written жур where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ʐur/. In plain English letters that is ZHOOR, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Zhur?

Zhur is a soup or stew of Belarus. Where it comes from: All Belarus. People usually eat it at lunch or dinner. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour and potato. It tastes sour.

Where Zhur comes from

Zhur is one of 11 signature dishes of Belarus on this map.

• Draniki дранікі · Main dish · All Belarus

  Draniki are thick pancakes of grated raw potato, sometimes mixed with onion, fried in oil or lard until crisp and brown, and eaten hot with sour cream.

• Kalduny калдуны · Main dish · All Belarus

  Kalduny are dumplings of wheat dough, or in some versions of grated potato, stuffed with minced meat, mushrooms or curd cheese, boiled and served with butter, sour cream or fried onions.

• Verashchaka верашчака · Main dish · All Belarus

  Verashchaka, more often called machanka, is a thick stew of fried pieces of salo, sausage and pork ribs with sharp seasonings, thickened with flour and stewed in the oven; dishes of this kind, with local differences, are known all over Belarus.

• Krambambula крамбамбуля · Drink · All Belarus

  Krambambula is a Belarusian alcoholic drink of vodka with honey and spices, drunk either cold or hot; many recipes exist, and commercial versions are made as well.

• Khaladnik халаднік · Soup & stew · All Belarus

  Khaladnik is a cold summer soup of beets, sorrel or both, a traditional dish of Belarusian cooking with roots in the time of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth; it is also known in Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian cooking.

• Zatsirka зацірка · Soup & stew · All Belarus

  Zatsirka is a traditional thin soup of the Belarusians made from flour.

Food of Belarus

Dishes like Zhur in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Zhur:

• Gaisburger Marsch · Soup & stew · Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg), Germany

  Gaisburger Marsch is a Swabian beef stew named after Gaisburg, now a district of Stuttgart.

• Crapiata · Soup & stew · Matera, Italy

  Crapiata is a soup from Matera made from a mix of dried pulses and grains: chickpeas, beans, lentils, broad beans, peas and wheat, with potatoes, cooked together slowly in a pot.

• Dak-hanmari 닭한마리 · Soup & stew · Seoul, South Korea

  Dak-hanmari means "one whole chicken", and that is the dish: a whole chicken in a big pot with potato, spring onion and garlic, boiled at the table.

• Żurek · Soup & stew · Poland

  Żurek is a sour soup made with a fermented starter of rye flour, called zakwas, cooked with smoked meat, white sausage, garlic and marjoram, and often served with a halved boiled egg.